Just as cooks pray for a good crop of young animals and fishermen for a good haul of fish, in the same way busybodies pray for a good crop of calamities or a good haul of difficulties that they, like cooks and fishermen, may always have something to fish out and butcher. (Plutarch, "On Being a Busybody")

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Fake Reviews

Michael Bird mentions the BBC report of an historian required to pay libel damages and costs for writing fake amazon reviews disparaging the works of others and praising his own. It makes me wonder about the risk of certain "guest" reviews I have allowed published on this blog (see here and here).